English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 62

The captain jumped for joy; he remembered poor Whittington and his cat, and told the king he had a creature on board the ship that would despatch all these vermin immediately.

Who acts: captain, King, ship · What happens: jump, remember, tell, have, despatch · To what, where: poor Whittington, king, creature, ship, vermin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, King, ship), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 joy	case
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 remembered	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remembered	nsubj
8	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	parataxis
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Whittington	amod
10	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 remembered	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cat	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cat	nmod:poss
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Whittington	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 creature	det
22	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 ship	case
24	board	board	ADP	_	26 ship	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ship	det
26	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 despatch	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 despatch	aux
29	despatch	despatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ship	acl:relcl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 vermin	det:predet
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 vermin	det
32	vermin	vermin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 despatch	obj
33	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	29 despatch	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump	past	the captain				for joy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remember	past	captain	poor Whittington and captain's cat				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	captain not said here		the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	past	King	a creature		the ship		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient
5	despatch	would	the ship	all vermin			immediately property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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